Kris Brettingen is in the Merger Integration and Carve-Outs practice and specializes in merger and acquisition (“M&A”) advisory during the pre-sign diligence, sign-to-close and post-close phases of the deal lifecycle. Mr. Brettingen manages multidisciplinary M&A and business transformation engagements for his clients, which include corporates and private equity firms. He has extensive experience in the renewable energy industry and notable experience in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and consumer products industries.
Mr. Brettingen has expertise in leading the transition, integration and project management offices (“TMO”, “IMO” and “PMO”) on carve-outs and merger integrations. This includes designing interim and future state operating models, creating stand-alone cost models, developing transition services agreements (“TSAs”), assessing and mitigating transaction risks, developing carve-out and integration playbooks and prioritizing key operational imperatives across functional teams, including finance and accounting (“F&A”), IT and HR.
Mr. Brettingen also has extensive F&A experience across the transaction lifecycle. His experience includes interim management, and the stand-up and integration of F&A departments, including across sub-functions within F&A such as organization design, treasury and banking, financial planning and analysis (“FP&A”) and reporting, business insurance, corporate accounting, F&A IT systems, accounts payable (“A/P”) and accounts receivable (“A/R”) shared services, audit and direct and indirect tax. He has worked closely with private equity and corporate executive leadership teams, M&A legal counsel, investment bankers and other critical service providers to stand-up best-in-class F&A teams.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Brettingen was the Director of Finance for a technology company, where he was responsible for managing the finance and accounting team, including the FP&A and treasury functions. He also spent more than 10 years with Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services practice in Los Angeles and Denver.
Relevant Experience:
- Distribution Business Carve-Out: Managed the PMO in the sign-to-close and post-close periods for the $950 million carve-out of a chemicals distribution business from its publicly-traded parent on behalf of the private equity sponsor
- Financial Services Carve-Out: Led the F&A workstream on a $1.1 billion carve-out of a division of a publicly-traded company acquired by two private equity firms
- Consumer Products Merger Integration and Business Transformation: Managed the TMO for a cross-functional engagement that included merger integration and margin restoration – pricing strategy and cost optimization – to unlock forecasted growth
- Industrial Manufacturing Merger Integration: Led the F&A workstream for a diversified consumer packaging company’s $1.4 billion acquisition and integration of a metal packaging company
- Telemedicine Carve-Out: Performed pre-sign diligence through post-close carve-out advisory for a private equity firm’s acquisition of the telemedicine unit of a regional health system
Education
B.A., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
M.B.A., Corporate Finance, University of Southern California
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連絡先
T: +1 303 689 8873
kris.brettingen@fticonsulting.com -
オフィス
999 17th Street, Suite 700
Denver, CO 80202
United States
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専門知識
M&Aアドバイザリー
合併統合
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